Jeffrey Antil

Environmental Quality Analyst at EPA / DEQ

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Oct 2011–Dec 2015

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30 emails found.

DCDS Timesheets Thurs. 12/3

Please have your timesheets completed by COB on Thursday 12/3. | will approve timesheets on the morning of 12/4, Those working on Flint please remember to use the activity tracking function. Stephen Busch, P.E. MDEQ Lansing District Coordinator Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor 517-643-2314 [email protected] xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b076_2599_2966_154 Rennaker, Joanne (DEQ)

RE: S Exams

\Wiw, thank you far ihe compliment, Jefi | will pass Ht onic the remainder of our staff cause | can’i lake credit for all of it, i wish the oublic, and curimgmi, could hear more of those kinds of good news stories from our regulated entities! And ii helps tremendously that you have made it easy for us to assisi YOUA with mainiaining compliance! Thanks and have a great weekend! deff deff Anil Drinking Water Analyst Office of Drinking Water & Municingl Assistance Deparimaent of Environrnental Quality 301 Easi Louls Glick Hwy Jackson, Michigan, 492014 (py S47. 780.7340 ) S17 786.7855

RE: S Exams

Jeff, {have had quite a few phone calls from Flint residents and or public officials, not sure. | have given DEQ high marks on every question they asked because it’s true. DEQ has bean trernendous, outstanding assuring YCUA follows every drinking water standard. Answer to your question, before Yosilanti Townshie and the City of Yosilanti Cornbined to create YCUA in 1974, Yesilanti Township contracted with DWSD in 1972. HEFE CASTRO : Director Direct: 734-544-7116 : Main: 734-484-4600 i Fen: 734-484-4699 feastro@youg. arg Yostanti Community Ubtes Suthority 2777 State Road | Yoslant, Michigan UGA 48208-0112 | wonwveus org n that is confident: i anclfor legally privile: ediately, and do act js itis intanced for use only by the ni ments for any purpose, or di of the jerts. Tf vou @ disclose its contents to any p: ge is intended astitute ar: ommmerce Act ( ". The recipient damage caused by any virus transrithed by this arnail. 7 ything else 1 n Global and hy for ary or copy or sign:

RE: S Exams

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RE: S Exams

Hi Jeff, | forwarded your note to Scott Schmidt this moming. Iwas informed lasi week that | ami expected at your fecility on Wed, 11-4 and assurned the arrangements were already made with you ar Michaet by sorneone in OnCen, i have the exams in my office-we are expecting 45 operatars this time. jrnay not he able io attend due to recent health concerns but hope to and, fflam mot abie to, Pat Brennan will be there. Thanks, Jeff xxxEND_PAGE:deq17_b144_1067_1070_3 Jett Aritit Drinking Water Analyst CHfice of Drinking Water & Municipal Assistance Department of Environmental Quality 301 East Louis Glick Hwy Jackson, Minhigan, 492014 {p) 517.780.7840 (fy 547.780.7855 antigimich:

S Exams

Jeff, Are we on for S-Exams next week. If so, will you send info soon. SEPP CASTRO : Director Direct: 734-544-7116 : Main: 734-484-4600 : Fax: 734-484-4699 jeastrodiycusa.org Yostant] Community Utities Authority 277? State Road | Yosllantl, Michigan USA 48108-0412 | www. yous ore This Internet message and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended for use only by the named recipients. If you are not a named recipient, please notify me immediately, and do not use this message or any attachments for any purpose, or distribute or otherwise disclose its contents to any person, or copy or store it in any medium. Neither this information block, the typed name of the sender or anything else in this message is intended to constitute an electronic signature for purposes of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ("E-Sign"). The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. YCUA accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Thank you. xxxEND_PAGE:deq17_b144_1067_1070_4

RE: Monroe South County DBPs exceedance

Adam has some letters we sent to Flint on TTHM MCL you cari use as a template. This will be tricky since Toledo is their supplier, though the onus falls on MSC. Let’s plan to go over it all tormorrow in Jackson. xxxEND_PAGE:deq14_b0315_1264_1265_1 Thanks. Stephen Busch, P.£. MDBEQ Lansing District Coordinator Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor 547-643-2314 [email protected]

Monroe South County DBPs exceedance

Importance: High FYE MSO violated the THM MC. of 60 ppb with this last round of monitoring conducted July 7, 2074. ALL of thelr 4 sites were extremely high on TTHMs this © ~- 153,126. 151, 130: DEPS 7, 2, 3. 4, respectively. Their LRAA for DBPT (12924 Allenhurst is 93 and their 4 GEL becomes ti4 ppb. Previous highs on TTHMs was 126 back in 49 2012 and a 94 in Apri 2045 from the same DBP site on Alfenhurst. fwill give Ed a call here and request the OEL repart by 10/27/15 and Fil prepare the violation letiers. Thanks, Jeff Jeff Anti Drinking Water Analyst Office of Drinking Water & Municipal Assistance Department of Environmental Quality 301 East Louls Glick Hwy Jackson, Michigan, 49204 (6) 517.780.7346 (8 317.780.7888 anti michigan gov xxxEND_PAGE:deq14_b0315_1264_1265_2

ODWMA Manager's Meeting Highlights

Some highlights of the manager’s meeting on Monday. We didn’t get through a lot of the agendas and | missed the first part of the FOS due to the SMT meeting. - DLARA Licensing letter (see associated email) - Office of Auditor General ODWMA Audit — no decisions, still preliminary, but they are reviewing some Lansing District files. - Inservice, August 13 at Lansing Comm. College — FOS/CWS has 20 minutes and my understanding is we (Lansing/Jackson) have 3 minutes of that time - RRD site closure — we continue to work with RRD on site closure issues/process - Enforcement — a number of cases statewide were updated - Flint EPA Lead Issue — | was asked to provide a briefing on a high profile issue with Region 5 regarding lead in Flint - Classification of Water System policy is under review/revision, draft will be provided for comment. Let me know if you have any questions. Tracy Jo will send out a note on the minutes once they are final. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 xxxEND_PAGE:deq14_b0209_0966_0966_1

Goings On

My schedule has been chaotic the last couple weeks, but | wanted to give you a little update as to what has been going on and what is upcoming in case you’ve missed me. | am in Lansing today to work on some Flint stuff and try to get a little organized for the weeks ahead. - EPAhas released its own non-enforcable health advisory levels for the algal toxin microcystin, and draft implementation guidance is expected to be finalized by mid-June. The HAL’s differ from what was established by WHO and this will impact communities in Monroe County. Jerry, Jeff, and | will be working with them to make sure everyone is on the same page about monitoring and public notification should an event occur. As of now weekly updates from NASA and Michigan Tech indicate that nutrient loading is down significantly compared to previous peak years in that area of Lake Erie. - Flint continues to get results below the 80 ppb level for TTHM’s but will remain in violation, unless August results come back low. An inquiry from Rep. Neely was addressed last week and the City is permitting replacement of filter media with Granular Activated Carbon. = have been trying to scratch out time to keep working with Kurt on training, but appreciate Lansing District staff transferring their historical knowledge of the systems in his district. urt and Jeff will be attending a multistate EPA sanitary survey training course here in June. - The 2012 Michigan Plumbing Code is being updated based on the 2015 International Plumbing Code and the committee | have been working with on this just finished substantially completed) the draft this week freeing a couple of dates that had been on hold. - Work on the EPA lead-free law implementation federal workgroup has slowed since a public meeting was held last month, and my role should be closing out soon. - | had the opportunity to attend a Leadership Forum in mid-May where Governor Snyder gave the keynote speech in the morning and | attended sessions on infrastructure funding xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b443_4737_4739_1 attended by MDOT, ASCE, and Mayors of E. Lansing and suburban Detroit. The other session was on Data Management with representative from DTMB, consultants, and a Detroit data project. | ended up sitting down with member of the Public Service Commission to discuss some AWWA proposals and a SEMCOG consultant to discuss the DWSD/Great Lakes Water Authority. The ODWMA is being audited by the Michigan Office of Auditor General and with the Lansing District providing the easiest access to the community water supply program we are being asked to “show off” our work. OAG staff will be imbedded with ODWMA on the fourth floor for a few months so this isn’t just a simple/quick process. We had a brief meeting this week, but may need to spend some time to help educate them on what we do and just how we do it. The AWWA Groundwater Source Water conference was earlier this week and attended by several of you. | gave a presentation on microcystin and the harmful algal bloom situation in Lake Erie yesterday that appeared to be well received. The content of the conference was overall very good. (Director Wyant was the keynote and gave a specific shout out to our district and indicated that ODWMA is the best at customer service/compliance assistance). Yesterday | attended a meeting to discuss implementation of an Electronic Data Management system within ODWMA. The Office is at the top of the lineup within the Department for implementation and district community water supply implementation will begin in the Lansing and Jackson districts over the next 2 years. This will be a huge shift in how we all conduct our work and there will be a lot of growing pains as we move through the process and get our legs under us again. (More on this will be discussed in Jackson on Monday) Monday is the Director’s first district roundtable visit where we are bringing in local stakeholders to discuss their issues, and Director Wyant will also spend some significant ime with district staff. Liane is going to attend and will spend time with staff as well. The Lansing roundtable is in mid-October. continue to work with others in ODWMA to help define how the office will proceed with addressing secondary treatment systems at water customers, and have future meetings with the hospital association and DLARA programs for plumbing, building, and health care acilities. Following discussions from a Lansing ODWMA staff meeting last month we will have a planning meeting next week regarding a statewide drinking water lime reuse/disposal workshop for lime softening WTP’s. This will include OWMRP, OEA, and MDARD staff. Next week also includes a plumbing board meeting, district supervisor meetings for both Lansing and Jackson districts, some enforcement meetings xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b443_4737_4739_2 | may have left something out but as you can see | have been a busy bee. | look forward to spending more time returning my focus to the work going on in our district offices, thankful that you all keep plugging along with what you need to do! Have a great weekend. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b443_4737_4739_3

FW: Synthesis of State Reports from March ASDWA Board Meeting

FYI. There is a lot of material but this report gives a flavor of things going on in other states. Richard’s email below hits on the more interesting stuff. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314

Lansing Jackson Redistricting - 4/2015

Now that we have Kurt on board, there is a need to balance workloads between our 6 FTE engineer positions within the Lansing and Jackson Districts. Attached is the redistricting plan moving forward with a quasi-start date of April 1 (the fiscal year mid-point). We will begin making these changes in SDWIS so that you can begin planning for visits and surveys for the 24 half of the FY. It is recognized that survey and visit timelines will need to be smoothed back out to spread them over the 3 year cycle and some surveys may need to be conducted earlier to make that happen. While there are still some details to be worked out on things like file coordination, staff should plan to close out or transfer work regarding community systems that will no longer be in their subdistrict over the next couple weeks. | anticipate a lot of team effort will be needed the rest of the fiscal year to bring each other up to speed. We will continue to discuss logistical issues in the coming days. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 xxxEND_PAGE:deq03_b267_0426_0426_1

Kudos and Credit to ODWMA Lansing Jackson District

All, | wanted to share with you that | have been invited by Director Wyant to represent ODWMA at a luncheon with Governor Snyder next week. This is a direct reflection on the quality and character of the work we have all accomplished in the Lansing and Jackson District over the past year and in particular on a number of high profile issues for the Department and State including Flint and Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms. | just wanted to acknowledge you, as you deserve full credit for this honor. You have the recognition and appreciation of myself and many others for your continuing efforts and | plan to let the Governor know that. Again, it is because of you that this was made possible. So thanks and cheers to the Lansing Jackson District for | share in this with you. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 xxxEND_PAGE:deq17_b065_0771_0771_1

FW: DEQ-Laboratory Report-Antrim-2014-05-05

From
David Maynard
There are several type 1 results mixed into this PDF. Dave Maynard, Environmental Quality Analyst Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance Cadillac District Office 120 West Chapin St. Cadillac, MI 49601 Office: 231-876-4481 Cell: 231-598-0717 Fax: 231-775-4050

District Staff Meetings Jxn 4/15, Lan 4/24

We have staff meetings coming up. Attached is the agenda. There is a lot on the list, but let me know if you have anything else to add on. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 | : i ' xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b077_2967_3228_193 Mid Year (April) District Staff Meeting Agenda - FOIA Exemptions - Lansing District Mascot - Communications Policy © Media Training o Responding to Media Inquiries - Blissfield WTP Survey - Fluoride QA/QC - Sanitary Survey Status © 6 month second half of FY14 Inspection plan (surveys/visits) - Source Water Assessment Status - Wellhead Protection Efforts - PEAS Response & DWGIS/ArcGIS - Director Visits o Lansing MSU o Jackson — Ann Arbor NSF & City? - Enforcement Status o Moon Lake o Greenbrook Estates © Quail’s Nest/Bennett MHP o Flint —- Bray Road - DCDS AL/SL Comments - Outlook Calendar Requests o All Day — Employee/Supervisor .o During Day — Employee o All Appointments and Leave - Travel Vouchers — Meal Receipts - Secondary Systems - Website Comment Button - Purge Publications, Policies, Procedures, Templates - Response Guidelines - Cross Connection Histories o Small System Cross connection reports | xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b077_2967_3228_194 Rennaker, Joanne (DEQ)

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Week of 1/6 whereabouts

Con Hall is closed today but is expected to reopen on Tuesday. However, DeWitt Public Schools are already cancelled for Tuesday so | will be on AL that day. Wednesday I have a program to attend at the Michigan State Police Offices. A meeting originally scheduled in Flint today has been rescheduled for Thursday morning. | should make it back to Lansing with Mike Prysby late in the day. Friday | will be in Lansing as | have my performance review with Richard that day. The following week is also going to be a busy one. | apologize to those in Jackson for my continued absence. If you need anything please don’t hesitate to call or email me. Above all please stay safe and warm over this next week. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b077_2967_3228_205 Rennaker, Joanne (DEQ)

Busch Schedule 8/26 - 8/30

My schedule for this week is as follows: M 8/26 Lansing (meetings) T 8/27 Lansing (Flint) W 8/28 Jackson Th 8/29 Jackson F 8/30 Lansing This weekend is Labor Day weekend so I’m sure we'll get a notice to submit time sheets early. Reminder that Wednesday evening is the Lansing District Picnic. Stephen Busch, P.E. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor ; Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314 xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b077_2967_3228_209 Rennaker, Joanne (DEQ)

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